Human Wellbeing Quotes

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

The common good embraces the sum total of all those conditions of social life which enable individuals, families, and organizations to achieve complete and effective fulfillment.

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Many of the ideas that accompany privilege talk, if implemented, would wreak havoc on human wellbeing. If people truly acknowledged their privilege, they would show a greater concern for the forces behind it, which permit them to lead long, healthy, educated, leisure-filled lives, all the while incessantly complaining about the unadulterated evils of modern civilization.

If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

Actually, climate change is really about the wellbeing of people. It is not a very vague concept or a vague problem that is out of our everyday lives. It is actually affecting our everyday lives, and this is the fundamental fact that everybody should keep in mind while working toward a low-carbon society.